Latest data shows Apple iPhone still holding top smartphone market share in the U.S.

The Apple iPhone remained the top smartphone in the U.S. with an average market share of 39.2% for the three months ended in May, according to the latest data released by comScore. Runner-up Samsung actually narrowed the gap during the period as its average share of the U.S. smartphone market rose from an average 21.3% for the three months ended in February, to the 23% that the Korean manufacturer achieved on average for the three months ended in May. During the same period, Apple's market share rose .3 percentage point while Samsung's rose 1.7 percentage points.

HTC and Motorola each lost .6% in market share during the same period with the two finishing third and fourth with 8.7% and 7.8% of the U.S. smartphone market respectively.

Meanwhile, Android extended its lead over iOS among the top smartphone platforms in the U.S. For the three months ended in May, Android held an average market share of 52.4% for a gain of .7% from the 51.7% share the platform enjoyed at the end of February. During that same time period, iOS' market share rose from 38.9% to 39.2%. Despite a decline of .6 percentage point from February, BlackBerry finished third with a 4.8% piece of the pie which topped Windows 3% and the .4% belonging to Symbian.

I don't get caught up in "best", cuz what best is based on generally 3 points. Need, preference, and familiarity, but the iPhone is a very solid, capable device. To me with so many great devices, and platforms "best" is now speculative. My fam is just the opposite, as most have androids, which you can't go wrong with either.

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The Note 2 has RUINED me for all other phones! Everything else looks so small now, I can't go back. Even my wife's HTC One feels small, so iPhones feel like toys to me. Not a knock, I just can't see using a smaller screen now.

That's weird. Just few days ago, didn't ms say how happy they are that they are now third in terms of platform marketshare?
And, what happened to htc one doing brilliantly, but they actually ended up losing 0.6%? Are htc ones actually selling well in the marketplace? Or is it htc fans(paid and unpaid) on the web playing up all these bogus claims of htc one selling out and claims of how popular they are.

Htc lies about their numbers sold, and lies about their popularity. But, htc can't wait to attack samsung for paid college students' reviews(which by the way, many companies use). This is why i don't like htc.

yawn... This is comscore garbage.
The Lumias aren't selling as well as they'd hoped in the US, but you also need to remember that people are still heavily invested in 2 year contracts on android and IOS. The US is always a step or two behind Europe and Asia, so these figures don't really surprise me.

I am glad to be able to afford all the new phones. I like both Android and ios. There are times of the month when I am really busy I borrow the wife's iphone and keep playing with my phone to a minimum. For other times I use android as I like rooting, flashing new ROMS. I don't understand why people can see the advantagesI and disadvantages of each platform. People, don't let fanboyism prevents you from enjoy all the great technologies out there. And you don't need to be fans of big corporations either. After all, you are paying for their stuff with your hard earned money.

According to Consumer Reports, Galaxy S4 is top Smartphone across all carriers, then, how can Apple have "top smartphone marketshare"? Consumer Reports also has provided data corroborating that iPhone 5 is in 4th-to-6th place depending on the carrier!! This report is baffling at best and fabricated at worst. Don't get me wrong, iLove my iPhone 5 and the little bit it can do but, Android "DOES"!!

Gs4 is on top on almost all carriers but this data is from Feb - may.. Gs4's sales started only from late April.. So we can see that only one month of gs4 sales have accounted in this calculation.. IPhone 5 in the other hand is on 6th, 7th position only in China.. In US, they are top in AT&T and they are second in other carriers where s4 is on top..

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